It's definately not the first time someone used a name from a book or movie. I've run across a couple of Aylas and Americus, a family who named all their kids with movie character names. While not common, they weren't horrible, unique spellings, or unpronounceble letter patterns, with random aprostophes.

My middle sister... *shakes her head* She gave her daughter a predominantly Hispanic name (at least for the area she lives in), which is not a problem, BUT she changed the pronounciation, and she gets very tetchy when someone mispronounces it. (For example - this is not the real name - it would be like taking the name Blanca and pronouncing it BLANK-a.) Now, alright, I suppose that could be forgiven, but the kid's middle name...

Lotus.

To go with her older half-sister (not my sister's kid, but her ex-husband's), whose middle name is Cypress.

They're perfectly lovely names. Really. For plants.

(On the other hand, oldest sister had a wicked sense of humor when it came to naming her kids. Her married name is Bender, so the oldest girl has a nickname (really just a truncation of her actual name) that is pronounced "on a", and the youngest has a name that means "morning". That one amuses us all to no end. )

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"So, what did you wish for?""I wished for... World domination, of course."

The ex of a relative of my husband's named her daughter Hatshepsut. My sister quipped that they could call her 'Hatschi' for short (achoo in German).

I wonder if there's going to be a brother called Rameses the third.

I might have posted this before but it's worth mentioning again.

Back in my library days we'd get several people a year who wanted to find an Ancient Egyptian name for the baby on the way.

We had the 'Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt'. This has a huge index of personal names both royal and non-royal.

A lady looked through the index and selected what she thought was the perfect name for her son. She was saying how nice it sounded when a curator happened by. Always happy to be of help, the curator told her that the translation of that name was 'Son of the Great Female Pig'.

Guy in a class: Joelle (Joel) We kept looking for a female, and he didn't want to answer to Joelle.

Woman in an office with a name tag: Tequila. Pronounced Ta-QWILL-uhKid in son's class: Juan. Pronounced Ja-WAN

Is "Peabody" really pronounced "Pibbidy"? I guess it could be, but that wasn't the obvious pronunciation to me. The person was quite sharp with me, as though I should have known.

Also knew of a child named U""Neek (she wanted quotation marks).

Back in the early 1800's, Juan was pronounced, "Joo - AHN." Thus, one of Lord Byron's most famous poems is pronounced, "Dawn Joo - AHN," despite the fact that the Spanish pronunciation is now the generally accepted one.

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